Matusalem

^All Canadian winters for me, babe ......just kidding. < I love 3 seasons out of 4. Kill February. V Ever have high expecttions for a vacation getaway, and when you get to that vacation spot, it's the worst weather you've ever seen?

Oh, Cheeky Actress lass, I must admit that you have me stumped, for I am a sucker for many Rhode Island ghost stories such as the Palatine ship off Block Island. .......Well, now you got me thinking....I had to edit this post a couple of hours later, and I do seem to recall such a tale. seems old age is getting the best of my memory. Cheers to ye . The rocks off Brenton reef are pretty treacherous....looks exactly like Monterey, Ca.. You can get the idea from this pic I took from the Jamestown side during Tall Ships.

señorita

Awwwww........poor little doggie. Found this in today's news, At least he's ok: Surfers save dog

^I was in SW Florida two weeks after hurricane Charley in'04. Looked like a Hiroshima in 1945. Sadly Sanibel Island, the one place in Florida that alsways seemed like paradise, lost all it's palm trees. < I'm a sucker for watching thunderstorms on the back porch. Vpass same question

Making Passage...With a Bone in Her Teeth..

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one who posts in the darkness of 4:36 am is a crew of serious business. I'd be by the Tappan Zee bridge but won't see you, so I think I'll head for Hoboken at noon.

Last night I caught a PBS dumentary on the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle (or Devil's triangle)....just another mysterious variable in the water between Miami, the out-islands, and Bermuda. Some parts of the broadcast had some cool bits of an earlier broadcast hosted by eerie-voiced Vincent Price. What really got my attention, personally, was the 1985 sinking of the sailing bark Marques ( whom I lost a schoolmate on an educational trip). Internet has some interesting sites:Lost Ships However, it's difficult to find any info on pirate ships....but relevant just the same.

1. French roast beef sandwich wih provolone cheese @ Chesapeake House in Chesapeak City , MD, 2. While ate Chesapeake house (or tavern, whatever the bloody 'ell it's called) saw someone's dressed-up mannequin of Cap't Jack Sparrow scaling down the side of the Blue Max Inn in the town. See belpw for the pictures. 3. a person who I grew up with, sails, was in a rock band with me, and is probably one of the most fiercest pirates in Rhode Island. 4. My dear mother.

Combover

Hard to tack a sailing vessel when the river is a ssssnake!

I've seen the Thames, and the few times that I was there, I was along the banks not far from the HMS Belfast, I saw some muddy shoals. How does a sailing ship make it up a river this shallow?...all those poor captured pirates en route to Marshalsea prison.

Scarlett Giselle ( I was a gonna say 'salty' as in "Papa ain't salty no more", the T-Bone Walker blues song but I guess only I know that song)

^Mssion and Arts & crafts era. it's such a classic American style thanks to Frank Lloyd Wright. I have a 1937-built bungalow, and I made a solid oak dinette set that resembles church pews. ...kind of gothic looking but not really. <I have an attic window facing the street that I am going to buld using several small lead -glass bottle-bottom panes. I actually got the idea from the Black Pearl Barbossa/Elisabeth scene on POTC1. V Pass Ye Question

The main board has a menu who shows who's watching what. That's why I say "you know who you are...we know who you are". Anyone on this board doing the ol'" Pete Townshend" will have to live with the fact that we know where you've been.

Captain Jim, I agree. That boat is a Herreshoff. I already made an attempt to convince our pyrate brethren that Hereeshoff boats are accessible $$-wise in another post: Jenny Cat The name Herreshoff holds extremely dear to me because my great-cousins worked in the factory where they were built, and I believe they are the most beatiful sailing vessels on the planet. period. I have always cherished the name because they built the American contenders of the America's Cup, notably the Reliance. Herreshoff A number of people in my neighborhood owned the 27 ft herreshof S-boat, which is one of the most exquisite looking sailboats ever buit, including my great uncle. Such is sailing life before the invention of fiberglass. I have often considered bying an S-boat, except for the fact they have no cabin space. Anyone who owns this better like working with wood...and be very patient. Also, I raved about my hometown (Bristol, R.I.) in another postBristol where Herreshoffs were buit but didn't include this picture where the boats were launched here on the Herreshoff Pier This is a 1954 photo of the factory right across from where I took this picture

Pillows

There's a distinct possibility that what you saw could *possibly*be the Royaliste, maybe....maybe not. She's about to make fer these waters about now.

Down Among the Dead Men CD by Pirates of New Providence.

You guys. if it weren't for the fact that I live behind the police station in my hometown, I'd set offa couple of these sucker that I have left over. I long for the 70's , the era we lived with reckless abandon and numb fingers from fireworks accidents (well.. at least I still have all 10.) Guys (...gals too), I highly do not recommend attempting 1 what I did (n fact, don't ever atttemp this) when I was 13 yr old kid....probably the most evil...,and real PYRATY thing I ever did ...was that my parents had a waterfront house on nrragansett bay, and many boatowners moored their boats by where we lived. Being the dumb adolescent that I was, I made a home-made cannon with the remnants of a bicycle pump, and M80 and some rocks and shot at a moored boat about 400 ft away, hit the thing and left some noticeable marks. What seemed like innocent fun to me back then, I look back and realize how foolish and arrogant such an enedeavor was. However....I was amazed that I actually made a working cannon. Well, that's my story of mischievous youth. Now I have a mortgage to pay.

Sounds almost like the 'Curse of the Mary Celeste' (ye pyrates, study up on this tale)...fortunately I'm not female......but ya never know what fate has in store for me since I snapped the Picton Castle (in her pyrate paint) in Newport, R.I on July 1 at at Bannister's Wharf.

Rats tonight? ...again, captain? We've been eatin' rats for the past week! I couldn't help but be reminded that the my county authorities have advised the local (Ramapough) indian tribe here in town "not to hunt and eat the squirrels".....yep, true story, because the Ford motor corp. decided to dump their toxic waste in the area. ...so now, our squirrels (and rats) are contaminated. I took a doubletake when I read the newspaper article.

....don't forget Sloppy Joes My opinion is that, because of geography, it's pretty hard to make Ft Zach an attraction. It's not like witnessing battles at Gettysburg, which I've seen and love. I don't even think most folks would even appreciate the 1720 Careening camp like the way we do. Maybe that's good, it gives us pyrates a chance to remove ourselves from modern world into a Caribbean habitat. I think more emphasis must be on the , or a parade, and street performers....basically we bring the attraction to the tourists, not the other way around. We all know Mallory Square has more than enough room (geez, sometime the chickens on the street outnumber tourists). We all know what's become of that situation. But, at any rate, we sure could use a good friend in the Mayor's office.

Yep, I agree. I think I'm gonna drop in soon, anyway.